page_title: Forsvarets Spesialkommando
section_title: Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: Forsvarets Spesialkommando / International operations / Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: English: Soldiers from the Norwegian Army Special Forces unload from a CH-47 Chinook during Operation Anaconda.
context_page_description: Forsvarets Spesialkommando is a special operations forces unit of the Norwegian Special Operation Forces. The unit was established in 1982 due to the increased risk of terrorist activity against Norwegian interests, including the oil platforms in the North Sea.
  On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian Special Operation Forces, also known as Armed Forces' Special Forces, was established uniting the FSK and the Navy Special Operation Command under the one command in the Norwegian Armed Forces. In 2014, FSK established an all female unit Jegertroppen.
context_section_description: FSK supported Coalition Special Operations Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan as part of Task Force K-Bar. They have carried out missions in the Helmand and Uruzgan provinces of South Afghanistan.
  In August 2007, FSK members carried out the successful hostage rescue of Christina Meier, a pregnant German NGO worker in Kabul, no shots were fired and the hostage takers were believed to be a criminal gang not insurgents.
  More recently, FSK has had the main responsibility in training the Afghan National Police Crisis Response Unit in Kabul, under the command of the International Security Assistance Force (known as the Kabul Crisis Response unit-an Afghan counterterrorist SWAT team). During the April 2012 Afghanistan attacks, FSK were involved in combating Taliban insurgents in Kabul, having only recently relieved a New Zealand SAS detachment that had been mentoring the Kabul Crisis Response unit.
caption: FSK soldiers during Operation Anaconda
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